Ink-well.



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INK WEL APPLIOATION FILED MAB. 15, 1911.

1,001,27 6. Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

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1E ST1 ATENI F C INK-WELL.

T o all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM H. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,residing'at Artesia, county of Eddy, and Territory of New Mexico, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ink-VVells, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to ink Wells.

Y The present invention has for its object the provision of a simple,inexpensive, neat, strong, and durable holder for ordinary ink bottlesor wells which is adapted for quick and easy attachment to any style ofschool or other desk or table and which will prevent the ink fromspilling or the ink 'well or holder from becoming loosened.

The invention embodies a novel holder, part of which is adapted to beattached to the desk or table and the other part to removably carry orhold the in k well or bottle and which is adapted for attachment to thepart on the desk or table, as will appear more fully hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front perspective viewshowing the invention in position on a school desk; Fig. 2, a verticalsection of the same; and Fig. 3, a detail perspective of the carrier andink bottle detached.

A part of an ordinary school desk is shown at l, as provided with anopening 2 which receives a screw-threaded sleeve 3 having a flange tadapted to overlap t-he desk and provided with a suitable pivoted cover5.

The holder or carrier 6 may be of sheet or cast metal and is preferablyof open box-like form having a screw-threaded collar 7 adapted to bescrewed into the sleeve 3 and to receive the neck or mouth 8 of the inkwell or bottle 9 which latter may be any ordinary commercial ink bottle.The ink bottle is Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led March 15, 1911.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

Serial No. 614,748.

supported and held in tightly clamped position by a follower l() on ascrew-threaded stem 11 which engages a screw-threaded part l2 of theholder and is provided with a suitablethumb-piece or head by which itmay be turned.

The complete carrier or holder can be unscrewed from the sleeve 3 and,with the ink bottle, removed from the desk then taken out by unscrewingthe follower. Another inkbottle may then be substituted and the carrierand ink bottle screwed into the sleeve 3. The clamping action caused byscrewing the collar into the sleeve holds the flange of the sleeve onthe desk or table.

I wish it understood that various modiiications could be resorted to incarrying out the invention, that it is adapted to hold any kind of anink well or bottle, and that a different form of connection between theink carrier and the sleeve could be employed, all without departing fromthe spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

In an ink well, the combination with a desk or table, of an ink bot-tlecarrier having a collar adapted to receive the neck of an ink bottle, areleasable clamp for holding the ink bottle on the carrier with its neckin the collar, said carrier and ink bottle being adapted to be moved asa unit, and a screw sleeve for detachably securing the ink bottlecarrier to the desk or table.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aihx my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON. Witnesses:

JAS. W. FOSTER, MILTON S. LEE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained forive cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of latents. Washington, D. C.

